Machine for heading cans.



No. 796,927. PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905.

J. MGGINNIS- MACHINE FOR HEADING CANS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27.1903.

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No. 796,927. PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905.

J. MOGINNIS- MACHINE FOR HEADING CANS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1903.

PATBNTED AUG. 8, 1905. J. McGINNIS.

MACHINE FOR HEADING CANS.

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MACHINE FOR READING CANS. APPLICATION 2mm JULY 27.1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MoGINNIS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

I MACHINE FOR HEADING CANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed July 2'7, 1903. Serial No. 167,235-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, J AMES MCGINN S, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Machines for Heading Cans; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which'it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in machines for heading cans.

Said invention provides for the ready feeding of both the can-bodies and the heads to the can-body holders in proper position for the application or fitting of said heads to said bodies for the spinning of the headed cans and the crimping or contracting of said heads upon their bodies during such spinning operation and for effecting the delivery of said headed cans from said canbody holders.

It also provides for the ready rotation of the can-body holders and the closing and opening of the same, together with the longitudinal movement of the same, also for increasing the Working capacity or output of the machine, and for simplifying the construction and arrangement of the parts.

The nature of said invention, generally stated, consists of a rotatable sectional canbody holder, with one member or section adapted to be closed and opened, combined .with a can-spinning device and a crimper, the

the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Figure 1 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in section. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken about centrally of the machine. Figs. 3 and L are enlarged sectional views more especially of the can-body holder with one member thereof in normal or closed position and said member in elevated or open position, respectively. Figs. 5 and 6 are a rear and a front view, respectively, of the same with the same member in like position. Fig. 7 is a broken enlarged detail view in side elevation, disclosing more particularly the u pper-can-body-holdenmember-actuating device and the can-body-holder-actuating mechanism for moving the can-body holder longitudinally and the can-spinning mechanism. Fig. 8 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken through the can-body and the can-headfeeding chute.

It willbe understood that latitude is allowed herein as to details, as they may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from the spirit of myinvention and said invention still be protected.

In carrying out my invention I employ two carrying disks or heads 1, opposed a suitable distance apart and adapted to permit of their conjoint operation, as presently explained, said heads being carried and adapted to be rotated by a shaft 2, suitably mounted in position upon supports 3. Each of these heads or disks is provided with a number of holders 4, adapted to receive can-bodies and their heads in connecting up the same, as presently seen. Each holder consists of two members 4* 4", one being fixed or stationary upon a shaft 5, suitably journaled in one of' said heads or disks, the other member being linked, as at P, to cars or lugs upon the carrying-head, limiting its opening movement, and subjected to a spring action, as at 7, to render more effective or positive its action, the spring being secured to said member and to a fixture or stud 7, projecting from an extension of said head. Said can-body holders are each serially stepped upon its inner circumference, as at 4:, to permit of the reception of the canhead, and also at a point in a plane inwardly therefrom for the reception of the edge of the can for the proper insertion of the head upon the can. Each can-body holder has also socured thereto two projecting rods or fingers 4, entering coincident openings 4: in the carrying-head to retain said holder relatively fixed with relation to said head or so that the stationary member of said holder will be prevented from tilting under the weight of its companion member during the rotation of the carrying-head. Said members are each arcuate or semicircular upon its interior surface, so that conjointly they will conform to the contour or outline of the canbody and its heads, the purpose, of course, of rendering one member movable being to permit the ready removal of the can after treatment. The member at of the holder is detachably connected to the head 1. The member l is composed of a plate P, preferably detachably secured by bolts 4 to the part 4?", carrying the cam-roll 11. By this means the plates 4 and 4 may be removed and others put in their places with openings of various sizes to suit any size can, as will be readily understood.

A disk 8, termed herein the spinning device, is arranged concentrically within each can-body holder, it being secured upon one end of the shaft 5 of said holder. Said holder is held as against longitudinal movement with relation to said spinning-disk by a collar fixed to said shaft or by other suitable means, said disk being in contact with the bottom of said holder. Said shaft is provided with a pinion 8, adapted to be geared with a stationary segmental rack 9, produced as a single casting with the stationary collar 9 encircling the shaft 2 and having aflat sideresting upon a bracket 9", fixed to one of the head-carryingshaft supports. The segmental rack 9 may have its extremities curved inwardly to permit the pinion 8 to easily ride up for engagement therewith. The shaft bearing pinion 8", actuated by said rack, has fixed thereto two collars 8, and between these collars said shaft is loosely encompassed by a ring or annulus 8, having a radial elongation or extension carrying a roll 8, traveling in a cam-groove 10. Said ring has also a projection or stud 10, which may be a nut-shape-ended screw-bolt, connected to a guide-bar 10, having an elongated slot receiving the pin or stud 7". By means of this construction it will be observed that while the shaft 5, bearing the spinningdisk 8, is permitted to be rotated by means of the action of the pinion 8 engaged by the rack 9, said ring or annulus 8 will be allowed to travel in a right line by the action of its roll 8 engaging the cam-groove 10. The purpose of the rectilinear or right-lined movement thus obtained is to effect the bringing together of opposite can-bod y holders of the two carrying-heads at, of course, the proper intervals to successively act upon .the can-bodies and the can-heads fed thereto, as explained hereinafter. Said disk, together with its shaft, the pinion of said shaft, and a rack, constitutes a spinning device for aiding the beveling or crimping of the can-head. Said can-body holder movable member has suitably connected thereto a roll or hearing 11, traveling in a cam-groove 12, formed in an extension of a carrying-head, the purpose of which is to effect the automatic movement of said member toward and away from the fixed or stationary member of said holder, respectively, said action of parts of course being automatically controlled or regulated according to the stages of the reception of the work by the can-body holders, the spinning and crimping thereof,

and the disposal of the same, as will be readily appreciated.

A crimper 13, comprising also a disk 13, adapted to cooperate With the aforesaid disk 8 for crimping the can-head and carried by a spindle 13", pivoted, as at 18 in an armor extension of one of said heads, has its disk adapted to work through an opening in a fixture or extension 13 of said head in contact, when in operative position, with the exterior portion of the can-head opposite that portion in contact with the spinning-disk. The action of said crimping-disk is controlled by a cam offset 14, formed upon a shaft-bearing, the action of said cam being preferably transmitted to the spindle of said crimper by the engagement of said cam with a projection or stud 14, which may be a screw inserted into said spindle and having its head projecting sufficiently for that purpose. It will be noted that as said stud or projection is brought into engagement with the offset or cam 14 said crimper will be forced into contact with the can-head at about the center of its flange and be held against it rotafively, thus effecting the crimping or beveling of the can-head, each end thus being treated by a crimper arranged opposite the same. Said engagement is maintained until the can has been spun sufficiently to have made three complete revolutions, when said crimper, with its spindle, will be permitted to recede or be removed from the can, thus taking said crimper out of contact therewith aftersuch crimping operation.

It will be understood from the foregoing that acan-body holder,together with a crimper and a spinning device, is'geared up or actuated in such manner as to provide for the successive reception of the can-bodies and their heads, the performance of the heading of the cans, including the spinning and crimping operation, and after such operation to permit said holders to be opened and the cans released, this operation being successively performed as the can-body holders are carried around by the heads bearing said holders.

The feeding-chute 1 5 for delivering the canbodies, together with their heads, into the can-body holders is suitably supported in position and arranged so as to effect such feeding or delivery when said holders arein open position, said chute having lower curved terminal lingers 15 opposed to said can-body holders in such position as to permit the taking of said can-bodies and heads therefrom by said can-body holders as the latter arrive opposite said terminal fingers. Said chute has also two lateral compartments 15, adapted, as seen in Fig. 8, to receive the can-heads and so arranged as to permit said heads upon reaching the delivery ends thereof to automatically roll therefrom, together with the can-bodies, into the can-body holders to receive the action of the spinning-heads 8 as said holders are forced longitudinally in effecting the fitting or applying said heads upon the ends of said can-bodies, together with the spinning or crimping thereof. A second chute 16 is arranged and suitably supported in position at the delivery side of the machine to receive the cans after heading as they are released by the opening of the can-body holders and suitably deliver the cans.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine of the character described, a rotary can-body holder adapted to permit the spinning and crimping of a can therein, having a longitudinally-movable member forming a segment thereof, means for the retention of said movable member under spring action, and means for effecting such movement of said movable member.

2. In a machine of the character described, a can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable memher, and a rotary spinning device adapted to have movement with relation to said canbody holder.

3. In a machine of the character described, a can-body holder having its stationary member carried by a shaft and a longitudinallymovable member, and a spinning disk or device.

4. In a machine of the character described, a can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable member, means for effecting the said movement of said movable member, a spinning device adapted to have movement with relation to said can-body holder, and a shaft carrying said can-body holder.

5. In a machine of the character described, a can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable member, a spinning-disk having its shaft arranged to permit the movement of said disk with relation to said can-body holder and a crimping device adapted to cooperate with said spinning-disk.

6. In a machine of the character described, a rotary can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable member, a cam for actuating said movable member and a spinning device adapted to have movement with relation to said can-body holder.

7. In a machine of the character described, a can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable member, means for the retention of said movable -member by spring action, a cam for effecting member and a longitudinally-movable member, a spring connected to said movable member, a cam, together with a cam-groove, said cam being connected with said movable member and traveling in said groove and a spinning device adapted to have movement with relation to said can-body holder.

9. In a machine of the character described, a can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable member forming a segment of said can-body holder, said movable member having linked connection with a fixture, means for the retention of said movable member under spring tension, means for effecting such movement of said movable member and a spinning device adapted to have movement with relation to said can-body holder.

10. In amachine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder comprising a stationary member'and a longitudinally-movable member, a spinning device arranged within said can-body holder, means for intermittently actuating said spinning device, and means for actuating said can-body holder.

11. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder comprising a stationary member and a longitudinally-movable member, a spinning device arranged within said can-body holder, said spinning device being geared up for intermittent rotary action, and means for rotating said can-body.

12. In amachine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder, a spinning device arranged within said can-body holder, a stationary segmental rack and a pinion carried by the shaft of said spinning device, geared up with said rack.

13. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder, a rotary spinning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder, and a cam-actuating device for effecting the longitudinal movement of can-body holder, a fixed segmental rack, and a pinion carried by the shaft of said spinning device and geared with said rack.

14. In amachine of the character described, the combination of acan-body holder, a spin: ning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder and a cam-actuating device for effecting the longitudinal movement of said can-body holder, including an elongated slotted guide, operatively connected up with said cam-actuating mechanism.

15. Inamachine of the character described, the-combination of acan-bod y holder, a spinning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder, a cam-actuating mechanism embracing a ring carrying a roll and engaging a cam-groove, said ring encompassing the shaft of said spinning device, and means for rotatively actuating said spinning device, said cam-actuating mechanism including an elongated slotted guide operatively connected therewith and said holder.

16. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder, a spinning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder, a stationary segmental rack, a pinion carried by the shaft of said spinning device geared up with said rack, a camactuating device engaging a cam-groove and embracing a ring encompassing the shaft of said spinning device and a guide for said ring.

17. In a machine of the character described, the combination of acan-body holder, a spinning device and a crimping device adapted to move automatically toward and away from said spinning device, a fixed segmental rack and a pinion carried by the shaft of said spinning device and geared to said rack.

18. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder, means for efl'ecting the requisite movement of said can-holder, arotary spinningdevice, an intermittently rotated crimping device, and means for effecting the movement of said crimping device with relation to said spinning device, a [ixed segmental rack and a pinion carried by the shaft of said spinning device and geared to said rack.

19. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a rotary can-bod y holder, an intermittently-rotated spinning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder, means for effecting also the longitudinal movement of said can-bod y holder, a crimmng device, and means for effecting the intermittent actuation of said crimping device, a fixed segmental rack and a pinion carried by the shaft of said spinning device and geared to said rack.

20. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a rotary can-body holder, a rotary spinning device, a cam-actuating mechanism for eifecting the longitudinal movement of said can-body holder, a crimping device adapted to cooperate with said spinning device, said crimping device being carried by a pivoted spindle and a cam-actuating device for efi'ecting the movement of said crimping device toward and away from said spinning device.

21. In a machine of the character described,

the combination of a rotary can-body holder, cam-actuating mechanism for also effecting the longitudinal movement of said rotary canbody holder, a rotary spinning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder and a crimping device comprising a beveledged disk carried by a spindle pivotally hung carried by a pivoted spindle having a lateral.

stud or projection, and a cam adapted to engage said stud for controlling the movement of said crimping device.

23. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a can-body holder comprising a longitudinallymovable member, means for effecting such movement of said movable member, including an elongated slotted guide operatively connected therewith, a crimping device adapted to cooperate with said spinning device, means adapted to permit said crimping device to be moved toward and away from said spinning device, and means for controlling or imparting an intermittent action to said crimping device.

24L. In a machine of the character described, a can -body holder comprising a longitudinally-movable member, cam-actuating mechanism for effecting such movement ofsaid movable member, a spinning device arranged with relation to said can-body holder, mechanism for rotating said spinning device, camactuating mechanism for moving said canbody holder longitudinally, a crimping device actuated to cooperate With said spinning device, said spinning device comprising a disk carried bya pivotally-hungspindle, said spindle having a lateral stud or projection and a cam adapted to engage said stud for controlling or imparting an intermittent movement to said crimping device.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MGGINNIS.

\Vitnesses:

J. VVM. SHEFFER, LOUIS T. PANAM. 

